SURVEY OF LOCAL TRAFFIC ENGINEERING CAPABILITIES TO IMPLEMENT ITS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

Local governments are often viewed as the key to deploying ITS. However, many cities do not understand the capabilities of ITS. Some of those that understand ITS believe that they cannot implement and maintain ITS systems with their staff's current level of technical capabilities. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission conducted a survey of local cities to ascertain current size of their traffic engineering staff, staff capabilities, types of hardware and software currently being used, and familiarity with advanced technology. Survey data was obtained from 95 of the 100 cities in the San Francisco Bay Area during the first half of 1995. The survey responses are organized by four categories of cities, based on number of signals. Significant differences are identified across the categories, including the ratio of signals to population and signals to traffic engineers, use of in-house staff versus outside consultants for traffic engineering tasks, use of signal interconnection, and familiarity with advanced technologies.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Georgevich, J
  • Castellanos, C
  • Gage, S
• Conference:
  • Intelligent Transportation: Realizing the Benefits. Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Meeting of ITS America.
  • Location: Houston, TX
  • Date: 1996-4-15 to 1996-4-18
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: p. 857-864

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Deployment; Engineering; Implementation; Intelligent transportation systems; Local government; Local transportation; Personnel; Population; Ratios; Signals; Software; Surveys; Technological innovations; Traffic
• Uncontrolled Terms: Hardware
• Geographic Terms: San Francisco Bay Area
• Old TRIS Terms: Local traffic
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00724812
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 27 1996 12:00AM